What Is Abortion - Family Planning

Abortion is a medical procedure to end a pregnancy. There are two methods available in Aotearoa New Zealand.

What is abortion?

Abortion is a medical procedure to end a pregnancy.

There are two methods of abortion. The most common in Aotearoa New Zealand is surgical abortion. The other is early medical abortion (EMA).

Family Planning offers information about abortion and can tell you where your nearest abortion provider is. Family Planning provides early medical abortion at our Tauranga Clinic and at our Whangarei Clinic.
For information about where these services are available in other centres, visit the Ministry of Health website.

Family Planning has clinics located throughout New Zealand. Use the clinic finder to find your nearest clinic.